Interview: A Soulful Revolution Podcast
We Pray Freedom: Ritual, Solidarity, and the Soul of Revolution
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Dr. Charon Hribar on the deliciousness of solidarity
November 20, 2025
“In our seventh episode of the season, we sit down with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Dr. Charon Hribar to explore the decades-long lineage behind their new book, We Pray Freedom: Liturgies & Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor.
We Pray Freedom is rooted in an active, justice-building understanding of prayer and ritual—embodied practices that sustain, empower, and transform.
“Drawn from the struggles and wisdom of poor and dispossessed communities, these liturgies reclaim the sacred as collective action for a world where all can thrive. In a society steeped in the rituals of empire, these prayers insist that the leadership, dignity, and traditions of the poor are not only holy—they are essential to building a just and life-affirming future.” – https://weprayfreedom.org/about/
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Interview: Gravity Commons Podcast
Liz Theoharis & Charon Hribar: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor
October 28, 2025
We talked with Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar about how prayers, rituals, and liturgies help to sustain movements for social change. Their book is full of prayers, resources, and stories that grew out of communities committed to abolishing poverty.
Dr. Charon Hribar (Cha-Ron Reebar) is a visionary leader, musician, and scholar. She serves as the Director of Cultural Strategies for the Kairos Center and Co-Director of Theomusicology and Movement Arts for the Poor People’s Campaign. With over two decades of experience, she empowers leaders and integrates rituals and arts into organizing efforts.
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Interview: Straight White American Jesus Podcast
Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: The Rituals of Freedom
October 27, 2025
Brad welcomes Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, editors of We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from The Freedom Church of the Poor. Both guests are key leaders in the faith-based anti-poverty movement and longtime organizers with the Poor People’s Campaign. Together, they discuss how liturgy and ritual can be reclaimed as acts of collective resistance, solidarity, and hope among the poor and dispossessed.
The conversation weaves through Liz and Charon’s personal journeys—Liz’s formation in faith-driven social justice work and Charon’s discovery of liberation theology growing up in a steel town—and traces how decades of grassroots organizing through the Kairos Center inspired this new book. They explore how faith traditions, particularly Christianity, can serve as public, justice-oriented practice rather than private belief, what it means to “pray with your feet,” and how ritual itself can be political.
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Interview: This is Not Church Podcast
We Pray Freedom: A Conversation With Liz Theoharis & Charon Hribar
October 20, 2025
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Theological Abominations in Trump’s America
Tom Dispatch
By Liz Theoharis
September 9, 2025
It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached “good news” to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression.
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